When I started high school, my best friend across the street enrolled in a private high school rather than going to the one in our school district. I remember being completely thrown off by it. She made the switch so that she could be recruited…
I remember scrolling through the Penn State Class of 2025 Facebook page the day I committed. I was searching for a roommate at the time and was endlessly looking at post after post. A lot of the faces and bios blended together. A flag (green…
As a current college freshman, I feel like I have experienced an entire lifetime of events in the past 8 months. There have been a lot of highs and a lot of lows. I honestly don’t know if I could tell you what I expected…
If you’ve ever had to suffer through a course so boring that you wanted to gauge your eyes out, then this post is for you. There has been a lot of debate recently about core curriculums and higher-level education institutions requiring general education courses for…
Hi, I’m Lexi, and I went to juvie once for hot-wiring and stealing a car. What about you? Yeah, this is probably not how you’re introducing yourself to your classmates. I’m sure that the criminal record of the people sitting next to you in class…
When I say “sex education”, I do not mean the popular British comedy/drama on Netflix (although this is one way to learn). I mean real sex education. The overlooked education, forgotten and pushed into the back corner. Why? Because it’s uncomfortable to teach and to…